Combined knipe and pencil case



RICHARD CROSS, 0F ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED KNIFE AND PENCIL CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 14,306, dated February 26, 1856.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD Cross, of Attleboro, in the county ofBristol and State of hlassachusetts, have invented an Improvement inCombined Pocket-Knives and Pencil-Cases or Cases or Handles for theReception of a Series of Various Instruments; and I do hereby declarethat the same is fully described and represented in the followingspecification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l,exhibits a front side elevation of one of my improved handles or casescontaining a knife blade an ever pointed pencil, and other articles,such asa pen holder, and tooth pick. Fig. Q, is a rear side elevation ofthe same. Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of it taken through itsgreatest width. Fig. t, another longitudinal sect-ion taken through theknife blade and tooth pick. Fig. 5, is a transverse section of thehandle. Fig. 6, is a side view of the outer tube of the handle. Fig. 7,a cross section of the same, Fig. 8, a side view of the inner tube ofthe handle. Fig. 9, a cross section of the same.

In these drawings, A is the handle. B, is a knife blade. C, is a toothpick; E, a pen holder and, F, a pencil case, all of which respectivelyare arranged in long chambers, a, Z), c, cl, formed-longitudinallywithin the handle. The knife, pen holder, tooth pick, and pencil case,are adapted to their respective chambers, so that they may slide intoand out of the same, and when slid outward, project from one end of thehandle as seen in Figs. l and 2. The main part of the handle I constructof two thin metallic tubes e, f,-each of which is formed with twoopposite sides parallel as seen in the drawings, the inner tube beingsquare or rectangular in transverse section. This square or rectangulartube marked, f, I extend through the other tube, e, the external widthof the internal tube corresponding with, the internal width of the outertube so that the parallel sides of the two tubeswhen one is arrangedwithin the other shall come in contact. The external tube isconstructed, elongated in transverse section, and so much larger thanthe inner tube as to form with it, one or more chambers, g, L, for thereception of a pen, pencil case or holder. As the outer tube is made ofvery thin metal the inner tube not only supports it from being bentinward flatwise, but with 1t forms one or more chambers as above setforth. The inner tube may be divided into two or more chambers, by oneor more partitions, m, extending across it. In the drawings it is shownas separated into two chambers, one of which receives a pen knife blade,while the other serves to carry a tooth pick. A long slit may be madethro-ugh the side of the handle into each chamber as seen at, a, in Fig.l, or, 0, in Fig. 2, as well as at, p, and g, in Fig. 3, these slitsserving respectively to receive the thumb studs or projections, r, r, r,by which the various instruments are pushed into or out of their socketsby the action of the thumb of a person. The slit of the knife bladesockets, I construct with two recesses, s, z", extending laterally fromit at its two ends, these recesses being for the reception of the thumbstud or spring catch, 1, the spring of which I arrange within a slot, u,made through the shank of the knife blade as seen in Fig. 10, which is aview of the knife blade as it appears when separated from the handle.The object of arranging the spring within a slot is to protect thespring on its opposite sides from being impeded in its operation by dustor dirt, which might readily be scraped fro-m the socket of the knifeblade by the knife shank during its movements. I do not intend tohave itinferred that my improvement entirely so protect-s the spring but Iwould have it understood that the spring by such .is much betterprotected than it would be placed simply in a notch formed in the edgeof the knife shank.

My mode of constructing the handle enables me to make it both strongerand much cheaper, or to much better advantage than the same can be made,were it formed of a single plate tube divided by partitions into ltended through the other, itshall not only serve to support it on two ofits opposite sides, so as to prevent them from being crushed inward, butform with the remainder of the inelosing tube, and between it and thelatter, one or more chambers for the reception of instruments, asspecified.

2. I also claim arranging the spring of the knife blade in a slot madethrough the 10 shank of the blade as described, the same being in mannerand for the purpose as set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my signature this twenty-ninthday of Deeember A. D. 1855.

RICHARD CROSS.

Witnesses JOHN DAGGETT, Gr. I-I. BRAGG.

